Subscribe RSS FeedAn Internet connection is all that is needed to access millions of websites around the web. This is possible because these sites are hosted on computers that constantly run so they remain online 24 hours a day and 7 days of week. Of course, the average computer cannot do that unless it is running an extremely fast connection and remains turned on. Therefore, anyone that wants to set up their own website needs a web hosting provider.
There are many different types of web hosting service plans to choose from; while there are free hosting companies, these are not recommended (they tend to be relatively unreliable and are notorious for disappearing overnight). Instead of these free services, you should use commercially available web hosting services ” most of these services offer low cost web hosting services aimed at beginners, but there are plenty of more advanced options such as dedicated server hosting.
A dedicated web hosting plan has nearly the same specifications as the shared plan, but the site is stored in its own dedicated server. A dedicated server should be your choice if the following are all true.
You Need Your Site To Be Safe
Protecting your website calls for using strong passwords to protect your database and using the latest, most secure versions of applications on your site. However, you could use all of the best protective measures and still suffer from the effects of attacks against another website on the same server as your own if you use a shared hosting plan. With a dedicated server, your site is the only one on the server; so if your site is safe, it’s going to be well protected.
You Want Your Website To Perform Well For Your Visitors
With most web hosting, a site’s performance won’t be too severely affected by heavy traffic to a single site. However, when you use shared hosting and there is a lot of traffic to many of the sites hosted on this server simultaneously, slowdowns can happen. This won’t usually affect loading a simple webpage in any noticeable way, but if your site has a lot of multimedia content, your visitors will be able to notice (and be annoyed by) the slowdowns in loading and playing this content. With a dedicated server, all of the server’s resources are reserved for your site alone, so your visitors won’t have to suffer through slow performance even when your site is experiencing heavy traffic.
You want full control of the server
Shared hosting plans do give you control over uploading content to your site, installing applications and setting privileges for your content and applications. However, if you need some more extensive control over server-side function like changing VPS settings and allowing root privileges for several people to maintain your site, then a dedicated server hosting plan is the way to go. With business-oriented sites, a dedicated server is almost always a better choice, since you’ll want to have complete control over how your site and your server are set up and maintained.
If these statements are not all true for your site, then you may be able to stay with shared hosting; but if all are true, you will need to have a dedicated server for your site. Shared hosting is ideal when you’re just getting started but at some point, you’ll want the security, control and performance you can only get with a dedicated server.
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